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Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: The idea of circular economy and waste management is certainly not new to most people who grew up in rural Ireland. My father worked all his life fixing farm machinery. My brother had what was basically a scrapyard. He took in old beaten-down cars. Everyone who had an old banger that they wanted to keep going would come to him. If the radiator had burst, they would get one from him. All...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...concerns on numerous occasions, during Topical Issue debates and other discussions in the House, with both the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, that people in senior management in the HSE are swinging the lead. Unless something is done about this, we are all wasting our time. People are being left on long waiting lists and in queues in hospitals and, in some...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: My colleagues have adequately outlined the many reasons Deputy Harris should be removed as Minister for Health. Unless some Fianna Fáil Deputies manage to grow a spine in the next half an hour, the Minister will stay in position with their blessing and under Deputy Micheál Martin’s instruction. Why would Deputy Micheál Martin want to keep Deputy Harris in the position?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: The big contradiction here is between what the Department's policy document, Fisheries Quota Management in Ireland, states it has to do and free market enterprise, which flies in the face of it. The problem is that the bigger factories, which are also the bigger owners of boats - they are both the same thing - can create a monopoly and squeeze everybody else out. That flies in the face of...